“WOMEN WILL FIGHT.”
SHOULDER TO SHOULDER.
WARSAW March 28. Marshal Pilsudski’s widow in a message to the women’s military organisations said: “The women of Poland will fight shoulder to shoulder with their brothers on the battlefield.” Recent events in and surrounding Poland can be interpreted mainly as antiNazi, especially as she has _ hastened to strengthen her sudden friendship with Russia in order to chock Germany’s drive eastward. Traditional enemies, Russia and Poland last December broke a long period of diplomatic coolness with a declaration of their good intentions toward each other. To this rapprochement at the end of December was added a trade treaty which is expected to multiply 30-fold the trade between tho two nations On the military side, both nations have taken stops to check Herr Hitler’s eastward push. Practically completed now is a 450-mile four-lane highway running from Moscow to Minsk, near the Polish border, which can bo used to transport Soviet troops and supplies to Poland if necessary. Poland has a sizeable army, which is one of the best-trained and officered among tho small nations of Europe. Recently it was announced that in the next three years an additional £70,000.000 would be spent on her armed forces and border defences.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 101, 29 March 1939, Page 9
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